634 XCIV. APOCYNACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Rauwolfia. 
3-5 by 1-2 in., very membranous, drying yellowish green, narrowed into an often: 
slender petiole; nerves 10-12 pairs, very slender. Peduncle 14-2 in., branches few, 
slender, short, divaricate; bracts minute, subulate; flowers à in. Calya-lobes about 
one-quarter the length of the corolla-tube. Corolla membranous, tube broad, lobes: 
(unexpanded) very small. JDrupes connate to the middle. 
7. R. Beddomei, Lt, f.; leaves oblanceolate acuminate, cymes with 
very long slender horizontal peduncles, branches few divaricate, flowers racemed ,. 
calyx-lobes triangular-ovate, corolla small, tube slightly swollen at the top, 
lobes small, drupe 4 in. gibbously ovate acuminate. Tabernemontana vertit. 
lata, Beddome For. Fl. Anal. Gen. xx. fig. 3. 
TRAVANCORE ; Beddome. 
Branches very slender ; bark ciliate, minutely lenticellate. Leaves 3-6 by 14-12 in., 
very membranous ; nerves 15-20 pairs, very slender, spreading, nearly straight.. 
Peduncle 3-5 in. ; horizontal or decurved ; branches 1-2 in., divaricate, very slender,. 
forked, the long arms bearing racemes of flowers 1 in. long, like those of R. micrantha. 
Drupe solitary, much flattened.—Allied to R. micrantha, differing in the leaves with 
more numerous straighter nerves, the very long peduncles and racemose flowers and 
large drupes. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
OPHIOXYLON BELGAUMENSE, Wight Jc. iv. part ii. 2 (under O. neilgherrense) ` 
shrubby, erect, leaves elliptie-oblong obtuse or acuminate, corymbs long-peduncled 
compact many-fid., flowers on rather long pedicels, calyx 5-cleft, lobes dilated’ 
broad imbricating somewhat truncate, corolla-tube long slender, lobes forming a 
round capitulum in bud, stamens about the middle of the tube.—Belgaum, Law. I 
‘find no specimen of this in Wight's Herbarium; but for the calyx it seems identical 
with R. serpentina. 
R. PULAPARIA, Roxb, ; Smith in Rees’ Cyelop. xxix. ` A. DO. Prodr. viii. 341; leaves 
3 in a whorl, 3-4 by 1-1} in. elliptie-lanceolate subacute, nerves very numerous. 
nearly horizontal, cymes terminal, peduncle curved stout j in., pedicels and bracts- 
downy, calyx-lobes small ovate acute downy, corolla-tube many times longer than the 
calyx swollen at the top glabrous, lobes short rounded.—A Calcutta garden plant, 
probably the W. Indian R. nitida, L. I have made up the description from Roxburgh’s. 
coloured figure and Smith's description, having no specimen. 
8. AL'YXIA, /r. 
Shrubs. Leaves 3-4-nately whorled, rarely opposite, nerves faint. Flowers 
small, in axillary or subterminal cymes. Calya short, 5-partite, eglandular 
within. Corolla salver-shaped, tube cylindric, throat naked ; lobes overlapping 
to the left. Stamens at or above the middle of the tube; anthers lanceolate,. 
base of cells rounded. Disc 0, or obscure. — Carpels of ovary 2, distinct; style 
filiform, top oblong, urceolate or capitate, tip pointed or shortly 2-fid ; ovules 
2-6, 2-seriate in each carpel. Fruit of 1-2 an or berries, 1-seeded or with 
2-4 ]-seeded joints. Seeds ovoid or oblong, grooved or excavated ventrally, 
albumen horny, ruminate ; cotyledons thin, radicle superior.—Drsrrrn. Species. 
about 30, tropical Asiatic, Malayan, Australian and Polynesian. s 
l. A. gracilis, Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 697; glabrous, twining, leaves opposite- 
and 3 in a whorl elliptic oblong or lanceolate obtusely caudate, nerves very 
many faint horizontal, flowers small in long peduncled very slender branched 
panicles, Hunteria? gracilis, Wall. Cat. 1613 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 350. 
Sixx Hrmaraya; in the Terai, alt. 1-2000 ft., J. D. H. Kuasa Mrs, alt. 
2-4000 ft., De Silva, H. f. § T. 
Branches slender; bark pale, often warted. Leaves 3-6 by 1-11 in., shining 
above, green when dry, paler beneath, base acute; petiole 4-4 in. Cymes 2-4 in., 
branches spreading, very slender; braets small, ovate, acute. Calyx-lobes }5 in., 
